Pollution

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Notes

IB Assessment Statements

Rutherford Chapter 15

5.1.1 Define the term pollution

5.1.2 Distinguish between the terms point source pollution and non-point-source pollution, and outline the challenges they present for management.

5.1.3 State the major sources of pollutants

5.2.1 Describe two direct methods of monitoring pollution

5.2.2 Define the term biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and explain how this indirect method is used to assess pollution levels in water

5.2.3 Describe and explain an indirect method of measuring pollution levels using a biotic index

5.3.1 Outline approaches to pollution management with respect to figure 5

5.3.2 Discuss the human factors that affect approaches to pollution management

5.3.3 Evaluate the costs and benefits to society of the WHO's ban on the use of DDT

Resources

Biomagnification/Bioaccumulation

Bioaccumulation of Pollution
DDT & Rachel Carson

LD 50

Virtual LD 50 Lab

Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases

TB Resistant to all Drugs

Environmental Health

Pesticides Harm Mothers and Their Kids
Hazardous Waste Down the Street
Poisoned Places
Estrogen in the Oceans
Mushroom Burial Suits?
Cosmetics Database
Chemicals Cause Parkinsons
Natures Way of Showing off Pollution
Score Card
Texas Superfund Sites
EPA Brownfields
Greenfields vs. Brownfields
Lead Poisoning in Children
Yep, There's Lead in lipstick
Pollution Scenarios
Pharma in the Waterways Impacting Fish Behavior

Materials Science

Call for Conflict Free Gadgets

Hazardous Waste

Nat Geo: Half Life
Dealing with Nuclear Waste

Assignments


Cadmium Case Study

Foundry Cove Case Study
Foundry Cove
Case Study

Cadmium Pollution Case Study

Overview of Cadmium in Food
Cadmium in Hunan-grown Rice
Guangzhou-grown Rice
PRC's Response
Electronic Waste Leads to Cadmium Pollution

Air Quality at School

Convention to stop Mercury Pollution